On 17/05/12 21:34, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:29:53PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 17/05/12 20:15, Anders Johansson wrote:
Because I have this repo enabled and when I do "zypper up" and a new version of the kernel is installed, the nvidia driver from this repo does nothing - it isn't even updated during the same "zypper up" process - and I have to install the driver from the nVidia site.
To avoid all this crap, I simply just install the nVidia driver using "sh NVIDIA*". Saves a lot of angst. We had this discussion a while back, Basil. Why do you keep saying it? The whole point of kmp packages is that they don't have to be updated whenever
On Thursday 17 May 2012 20:00:18 Basil Chupin wrote: there is a kernel update. The kernel maintains a stable binary interface, so the old driver will just keep working without having to be rebuilt. It gets linked over to the new kernel automatically so you as a user have to do exactly nothing to keep things running
Anders This response is also @ Marcus.
Why do I "keep saying it"? Because a few days ago the kernel I am using was upgraded from 3.3.5 to 3.3.6 and I am also using the nvidia 295.49 driver. After the reboot I was left at the login prompt (level #3) which meant that I had to recompile the driver.
If the nvidia repo kept up with events then this step would (probably) be unnecessary. But until then, recompiling the driver is the only course of action available to get a graphical desktop :-) . Hmm, well, we do not suppli NVIDIA drivers for 3.3.x?
There is the 295.40 driver in the nVidia repository.
You are probably using Factory or a kernel from a different repo and then of course the self-built driver is ok.
I have nothing from Factory - Factory is not a repo in my list of repositories. I normally use the drivers directly from nVidia site and the one I am currently using is 295.49 but this is not available from the nVidia repo - hence the comment in my last paragraph above. I did, however, use the 295.40 driver from the nvidia repo when I first installed my system (because I wasn't getting the resolution provided by the nouveau default driver) but as I already had the 295.49 driver I then compiled it. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE 4.8.3 and kernel 3.3.6 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org